Stock Market

Stock Market is a ceramic bas-relief mural depicting a stockyard filled with cattle. By translating this contemporary scene into the ancient language of relief sculpture, the work elevates a mundane commercial moment into something archival and monumental.

Like the stone tableaus of ancient Greece that preserved their culture's values and relationships, this piece memorializes our own era's treatment of animals—capturing not just an image, but a reflection of the questionable values we hold. The stockyard becomes a modern temple frieze, asking what future generations will understand about us through the scenes we create.

The choice of bas-relief is deliberate: this technique has historically been reserved for moments deemed worthy of permanence, for narratives cultures wanted to preserve in stone. By casting the stockyard in this form, the work forces us to confront what we're actually memorializing—our dominion over these animals, the systems we've built around them, and the uncomfortable truth of what we consider normal.

Stock Market transforms the transactional into the historical, asking us to see our present moment as it might appear centuries from now: a tableau of our values, frozen in clay.

dimensions 72" x 6" x 72"

ceramic, underglaze

2017